FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Here it is Friday again. Hard to believe that last week at this time I was in the temperate Maritime Province of New Brunswick, whereas now I am back home in the Sweatbox That Is Summertime In Atlanta.

Just to remind me of my stay in Saint John, I have a pot of Tim Hortons coffee brewing downstairs as I write this. I also have a sack of dulse stinking up perfuming the pantry. Real Maritimer stuff, that. The airport security folks in Moncton were amused to find a pouch of it in my carry-on bag last week as I began my journey home.

It’s time once again for that remarkably self-indulgent exercise, the one in which I post ten cuts spewed forth at random from the iPod d’Elisson. I’m sure 99.9% of my Esteemed Readers don’t really give a crap what I’m listening to, but I post this stuff anyway. It’s a little window into my strange mind, and it takes the place of Serious Writing...none of which is to be found here anyway.

The list? Here ’tis:

1. Party At Ground Zero - Fishbone
   
   Party at ground zero
   A “B” movie starring you
   And the world will turn to flowing
   Pink vapor stew
   
   Johnny, go get your gun, for the commies are in our hemisphere today
   Ivan, go fly your MIG, for the Yankee imperialists have come to play
   Johnny goes to Sally’s house to kiss her goodbye
   But Daddy says to spend the night
   They make love ’til the early morning light
   For tomorrow Johnny goes to fight
   Johnny, Ivan, Ian, everybody come along for our nations need new heroes
   Time to sing a new war song
   
   CHORUS
   
   Please do not fear ’cause Fishbone is here to say (say what?)
   Just have a good time the stop sign is far away
   The toilet has flushed and green lights are a ghost
   And drop drills will be extinct
   Speedracer cloud has come
   They know not what they’ve done
   Sin has just won
   The planet is a crumb
   
   
2. Farewell To Lorien - Patrice Deceuninck
   
3. Purpose - Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast
   
4. The Lady Is A Tramp - Skanatra
   
5. Mr. Cellophane - Chicago, The Musical - New Broadway Cast
   
6. Not While I’m Around - Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd - Original Broadway Cast
   
7. Kuvernöörin tytär - Tuomari Nurmio & Alamaailman Vasarat
   
8. Satumaa (Finnish Tango) - Frank Zappa
   
9. Sexism - Bobby Slayton
   
10. A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie
    

Interesting. Lotta showtunes, just by the luck of the draw. And how ’bout the juxtaposition of Kuvernöörin tytär (performed by a real bunch of whacked-out Finns) with Satumaa (a Finnish tango performed by Frank Zappa)? Weird.

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?